Queensland Art Gallery director Doug Hall will be presented with an honorary Doctor of Philosophy at a 4pm graduation ceremony at The University of Queensland today (Tuesday, December 21).

21 December 1999

The University of Queensland's solar racing team's SunShark has won the GM Sunraycer Award for Technical Achievement for the team in the 1999 World Solar Challenge achieving technical innovation that can likely be translated to commercially viable...

26 October 1999

University of Queensland researchers are leading an international effort to save Malaysia's Green Turtle population.

22 October 1999

UQ researchers are conducting the first study into what influences the bounce and body size of babies in their first year of life

7 October 1999

The hottest solar assisted cycle under the sun will make its public debut at the Willowbank Raceway drag strip tomorrow. (Tuesday, October 12.)

7 October 1999

Mechanical Engineering Department honours student Amanda Robbins was walking on air with the news she would be conducting part of her research at NASA facilities.

27 August 1999

The University of Queensland's first woman Beadle Donna Clifford expects she will have no difficulties in carrying her weighty responsibilities.

17 August 1999

The use of caffeine in treating premature-born babies for apnoea could become standard procedure in neo-natal units in Australia and overseas following a three-year study carried out by the University of Queensland's School of Pharmacy.

26 July 1999

University of Queensland researchers have ruled out prematurity as the cause of the high incidence of low birth weight in Aboriginal babies.

11 June 1999

A computerised test kit for high-voltage transformers developed by University of Queensland researchers will save companies and taxpayers millions of dollars as equipment can be serviced to extend its life or replaced before failing.

24 May 1999

A procedure designed to improve hearing in adult humans has been used for the first time in the world to regain hearing in man's best friend.

6 May 1999

Size will count for almost everything when around 50 students from the University of Queensland's St Lucia and Gatton campuses put their plant propagation credentials on the line at the first annual Sunflower Showdown on Wednesday, May 12.

5 May 1999

Four University of Queensland students and their soccer-playing robots have collected two of eight awards on offer while representing Australia at one of the world's major robotic championships in Japan this month.

17 March 1999

Four University of Queensland students and their soccer-playing robots will represent Australia at one of the world's major robotic championships in Japan in early March.

1 March 1999

University of Queensland researchers have developed the first known model of emotional intelligence - how well people deal with their emotions - in workgroups.

5 February 1999

Samantha Flakus admits she's "hooked on turtles" - and turtles of the freshwater kind are her special interest.

12 January 1999